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JAMES G. TVVISS, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

FOLDING EEDS'T'EAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 377,179, dated January31, 1888.

Application filed March 28, 1887. Serial No. 232,641.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES G. Twrss, of the city and State of New York,have invented an Improvement in Folding Bedsteads, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a combined settee, foldingbedstead, and crib. The settee is in front of a case containing thebed-bottom, and there is beneath the settee a sliding side guard whichcan be drawn .out and turned up to iuclose the scttee and adapt it touse as a crib, and when the article is to be used as a bed the set-teeis wheeled around horizontally upon hinges at one corner of the verticalcase and then pushed endwise to bring one end of the settee up near thewall, so that the settee stands out at right angles to the face of thecase and the bed-bottom is swung down and with the bottom of the settceforms the bottom of the bed, the settee being at the head portion of thebed.

By this improvement 1 am able to make a very compact article offurniture, because the bed-bottom forms the back of the settee and thesettee only requires to be of a length cor responding to the width ofthe bed, and the bed-bottom, as itstands vertically, corresponds to thewidth of the bed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical section of the settee andbed-bottom. Fig. 2 is an end view of the case and part of the settee toshow the hinges, and Fig. 3 is a plan view i of the bed opened out andthe case in section.

The case for the bed bottom is composed of the back A, sill-pieces 13,stationary end 0, top or cornice D, swinging end liap, E, and stationaryend piece, F, below the swinging flap E, and the top of this stationaryend piece, F, is to be below the level of the mattress, so that themattress may pass over the same, as hereinafter described. \Vithin thiscase is the bed-bottom G, made ofsuitable materials and of a heightcorresponding to the width of the bedstead when the parts are openedout, and the side rails, 2 3, of the bedbottom are of a height adaptedto correspond or nearly so to the height of the springs introduced toform the bottom of the bed, which springs may be of any usual character,and upon them the mattress is to rest. The springs and mattress are notshown in Fig. 1 for greater clearness.

(No model.)

At the edges of the bed-bottom G are the projecting pivots H, upon whichthe bed-bottom swings as it is turned up or down, and there arehorizontally-slotted plates I, screwed to the inner surfaces of thestationary end pieces, 0 and F. The horizontal slots allow thebed-bottom and pivots H to be drawn forward as the bed'bottom is swungdown to prevent the top edge of the side rail, 3, striking the back A ofthe case, and the bed-bottom is to be pushed back after the parts assumea nearly horizontal position. The reverse movements take place when thebedbottom is swung up to place, and the preponderance of weight being tothe rear of the pivots H causes the bedbottom to remain firmly in itsposition after being turned up, and there is a movable leg madeuse ofbeneath the corner 4 to support this part of the bed-bottom when turneddown. (See dotted lines 14, Figs. 1 and 3.)

The settee is composed of the arms K K and the intermediate frame work,K K, and front K and there is a frame of slats L above the frame-work K"K*, and there are preferably springs forming the bottom of the setteeand resting on the slats L. These springs should correspond to thesprings made use of in the bed-bottom, and the surface of the settee isupholstered at M in any desired manner, and the under or front surfaceof the bed-bottom forms the back of the settee, and it may beupholstered, as at M. There should be casters at N beneath the legs N ofthe arm-pieces K K, so that the scttee can be rolled back against theface of the case and bed-bottom, or it can be rolled around horizontallyninety degrees, the hinges P forming the pivots upon which it swings asit is rolled. These hinges P are at the junction of the stationary endpiece, F, with the arm K, and along upon the surface of this stationaryend piece there are metallic slides Q, which are undercut or dovetailedand receive sliding blocks upon one leaf of each hinge P, and theseleaves are preferably con nected by the web P, so that after the settechas been rolled around into a position at right angles to the face ofthe case the settec can be pushed endwisc, sliding the blocks of thehinges along in the slides Q and bringing the settee-arm K up near thewall. The swinging end flap, E, is, however, first opened back againstthe wall upon its hinges It, and the bed-bottom is swung downhorizontally, as aforesaid, after the settee has been rolled to theposition shown in Fig. 3, and the side rail, 2, coincides or is nearlyin line with the arm '5 K, (see Fig. 3,) and one edge of the bed-bottomG comes against the back edge of the settee, and the upper surfaces ofthe springs in thebed-bottom and in the settee, respectively, are uponthe same level, or nearly so, and I there is to be a support at the backedge of the settee, (see dotted lines 15, Fig. 3,) upon which theadjacent edge of the bed.-bottom G rests.

It will now be seen that the settee forms the head portion of the bed,and that it increases I 5 the length of the bed to the necessary extent,the bedbottom G being square, or nearly so. If the seat of the settee ishinged at the front edge, as at 10, the said seat may be swung up andform a head-board, thereby the upper surface of the spring-bottom of thesettee will be exposedand a suitable mattress is laid. upon thespring-bottom and settee-bottom forming the whole bottom of the bed.

After the bed-bottom G has beenswun'g up to place the setteeis drawnendwise away from the wall to slide the hinges P in the slides Q andbring them to the front edge of the case, and then the settee is rolledback to place against the bed-bottom. 3o Beneath the slats L ofthesettee is a movable side guard, It, hinged at the back edge to theslide-plate S, and there are suitable supports beneath the slats L andupon the frame K K, in which the parts R S rest in their normalposition; but when the settee is to be used as a crib this movable sideguard, R, and slide-plate S are drawn forward, and the side R is swungup in front ofthesettee to form a guard or inclosure to the crib, asseen by dotted 40 lines, Fig. 1,and suitable hooks or bolts, RF, areprovided for holding the guard It up in its proper position against thearms K K. The slide-plate S is made longer than the movable side guard,B, so that its ends may stop against 5 suitable projections to preventthe parts being drawn out too far. This movable side guard and itsslide-plate convert the settee into a crib and prevent a child rollingoff the settee when asleep. I claim as my invention 1. The combination,with the stationary case having a back, A, and ends 0 and F, of

when swung down, a swinging end piece, E, I

and a settee hinged at one back corner to thecase and capable ofbeingswung around hori: zontally, substantially as specified.

'2. The combination, with the case and folding bed bottom and the setteehaving the bottom M and stationary end arms, K, of the side guard, R,corresponding in length to the distance between the arms K and the slideor support below the seat for receiving said guard,

and the slide-plate S', to which the guard is 0 hinged, so that the seatcan beinclosed by the side guard in addition to the arms and bedbottomto form a crib, substantially as set forth. I

3. The combination, with a case and abed- 7 bottom pivoted to swing upinto the case, of a settee, two hinges to connect the settee at onecorner of the case, undercut slides upon the end of the case, blocksupon the hinges within the said slides, and a web connecting So thehinges and the blocks, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination, with the pivoted bedbottom, of a case having astationary back and the two stationary end portions, 0 and F, and I theswinging flapE, and a settee and hinges to connect the settee to thecase, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination, with the case and the bed-bottom hinged to the caseand swinging up into the same, of a settee having end arms and hinged atone back corner to the case, so as to be swung around'horizontally andform part of the'bed, and a seat to the settee hinged at the front edge,so as to be swung up between 9 5 the arms to form the head-board,substantially as specified.

Signed by me this 18th day of March, A. D. 1887.

JAMES e. Twiss.

Witnesses: GEo. T. PINOKNEY,

WILLIAM G. Morr.

